It is sickening that great legislation that would have positively impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of animals was ruined by the act of one committee pandering to an animal abusing special interest group.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other law enforcement agencies have long recognized the high incidence of repeated animal abuse in the early history of many of the most violent serial killers, serial rapists, and sexual homicide perpetuators

A great bill was ruined by legislators catering to the financial interests of the animal agriculture industry, and the bill's author, Kentucky State Representative Joni Jenkins, was forced to withdraw her support of her own bill as a response.

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), whose endorsements include the National Rifle Association, has introduced a bill (The Lawful Ivory Protection Act of 2014) to prevent the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) from implementing much needed regulations

In 2008, staff at Elephants of Eden cruelly beat elephant calves and juveniles in response to the death of a handler at the South African park, which provided elephants for tours, rides, weddings, and sleepovers.

A crucial opportunity to help end the suffering of exotic animals in circuses has resurfaced and your immediate support is needed. The Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act (TEAPA), H.R. 4525, has been re-launched...

Seattle's mayor, Ed Murray, has started a dialogue for the "proper habitat for elephants" at the Woodland Park Zoo. Friends of the Woodland Park Zoo (WPZ) and IDA need your voice to urge the mayor to order the retirement.

Several weeks ago, we told you about Urban Adamah, a Jewish community center and urban farm in Berkeley, California. They had fifteen chickens who were used to produce eggs that the people there had been eating for the past three years.

Red wolves (Canis rufus) once roamed the entire southeastern United States. Today, these amazing canines are relegated to a small population of 100 individuals left in eastern North Carolina, and are critically endangered.

Hundreds of birds were poisoned and killed at Bush Intercontinental Airport this past weekend as part of a cruel and inhumane effort to reduce the health and safety risks posed by birds that can best be described as misguided.

For the last several years on the Columbia River, the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) have been trapping, brutally branding, and killing sea lions for eating salmon.

Air France is the only major airline in the world that still ships terrified monkeys to suffer and die in ethically abhorrent biomedical experimentation. As other airlines have abandoned the cruel practice, Air France enjoys a profitable monopoly.

IDA is shocked to learn the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently and quietly approved an August 2012 SeaWorld application to import Kirara, a Pacific white-sided dolphin held captive at Kamogawa SeaWorld in Japan.

Americans are now eating less animal flesh than ever before. Yet both the livestock industry and many in the food industry are not happy about this turn of events and are advocating for Americans to not only eat more flesh, but to consume more species.

California's foie gras ban was overturned last Wednesday, January 7, by U.S. District Court Judge Stephen V. Wilson in Los Angeles. He ruled that the ban, passed in 2004 and only recently in effect as of 2012, illegally encroaches on the regulatory domain

A pack of feral dogs has been running wild in the streets of Lahaina, Hawaii at night and killing feral cats, family pets, chickens, and other small dogs. The Maui Humane Society (MHS) claims they do not have the funding nor the staff to...

And then there is the annual YuLin Dog Meat Festival, in China, which is more massacre than merrymaking--it's a grisly, cruel, unhappy, nightmarish event, where dogs are still alarmingly alive while being butchered for dog meat hotpot.

According to the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, Hwange National Park visitors witnessed the capture of baby elephants by government helicopters and ground teams.

In Defense of Animals, located in San Rafael, Calif., is an international animal protection organization with more than 85,000 members and supporters dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of animals by protecting their rights and welfare. IDA's efforts include educational events, cruelty investigations, boycotts, grassroots activism, and hands-on rescue through our sanctuaries in Mississippi, Mumbai, India, and Cameroon, Africa.

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